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Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 204, 40pp. ads. Text in French. Illustrated from photographs and with engravings and technical drawings. Maroon cloth gilt over limp boards. Ex-Franklin Institute Library (gift of Mr. L.E. Picolet, with his tiny owner signature on front fly) with a call number on the spine, blindstamp on the title page, and card pocket and date due slip in rear. Front fly neatly reattached, margins with some toning, spine lightly sunned and worn at the base, a just about very good copy. Uncommon history of the torpedoes and torpedo boats of several nations, part of the Bibliotheque de la Revue Generale des Sciences. Wonderfully and profusely illustrated, with many full-spread plates.